Art to me, is the soul’s native language, and remembering it ignites the possibility to live in a truthful, grounded, expansive way. I wear many hats: a mom, a wife, a sister, a daughter, a mentor and friend living an ordinary life ~ learning to live in an extraordinary way.​ I dream of creating spaces to nurture ways of knowing that foreground the body, the sensorial, human contact, intimacy, multidisciplinary learning, and land-nature connections that expand our state of consciousness. I am finding these to be radical fields of study and practice to transform current ways of being and relating to the world, each other- and art making. 

Guadalupe Martinez (b. Argentina) is an artist and educator making works that reflect on what she's defined as sensorial aesthetics and expansive pedagogies. Interested in the capacity for creative processes to generate forms of wisdom and world-making, she uses embodied creation as means to explore individual and collective connection and healing. 
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Her ongoing project CUERPO collective-body is a  fluid group of emerging artists and mentors sharing knowledge, movement, and touch. A practice where embodied learning transforms conventional approaches to art production and education. A holistic process of liberating the body and the self, to occupy the often-disembodied spaces of academia and art institutions; allowing for a more expansive space to integrate and share knowledge. A search for a praxis where intimacy, embodiment and care may intersect through creative process. She is currently working on an artist book focusing on breath, touch, feeling, and dancing for collective healing, and a solo show focusing on intersections of performance, education, and collaboration.
 
Martinez holds a BFA from the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a MFA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada where she has been a Sessional Lecturer in Performance Art, Actions, and Approaches since 2017. Her work has been shown extensively in Argentina, US, Italy, Mexico and Canada at The Vancouver Art Gallery, SFU Art Gallery, Or Gallery, Access Gallery, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Griffin Art Projects, Latitude 53, Grunt Gallery, VIVA! Art Action, LIVE! Biennale, Open Space Victoria, CIA (Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas), Palais de Glace, Museo del Grabado, Centro Cultural San Martin, Centro Cultural Borges, and Infr’Action Venezia among others.

Martinez holds a certification with honours in Ontological Coaching from Newfield Consulting in Chile, and Natalie Roger's Level 1 Creative Arts Therapy program in Argentina. She has attended multiple specialized trainings, workshops, and retreats around the world ranging from Eckhart Tolle's School of Awakening, Presence through Movement and Somatic Mentorships, to Marina Abramovic Method and Pocha Nostra Performance Art Intensives.